Title- Dead Girl Walking
Series- Royal Reaper Book #1
By- Ruth Silver
Genre- YA, Paranormal, Royalty
Published By- Patchwork Press
Blurb-
Forget everything you know about grim reapers.
Princess Ophelia Dacre sneaks out of the castle to visit her boyfriend in secret. A perfect night cut short when she's brutally murdered.
Ophelia is given the rare chance to become a grim reaper. She must become Leila Bele, cut ties with her old life, and follow the rules of the reapers. Her greatest adventure begins with death.
My Review-
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Princess Ophelia Dacre is not your ordinary princess, one who thinks she is better than most folks especially the poor people. No Princess Ophelia is a very nice and sweet young lady who cares about everybody. But she doesn't like to follow rules, rules that she doesn't agree with at least. The King Ophelia's father has arranged her marriage to Prince Astin. The only problem Ophelia has with this arrangement is the fact that she doesn't love the Prince and she doesn't like people controlling her life and bossing her around. She may not like all the rules that are assigned to her but she does try to follow them and do what is required of her unless she doesn't agree with them.
Ophelia has a secret; she sneaks out her bedroom window at night to go meet her boyfriend Larkin. She even keeps secrets from Larkin too. He doesn't know that she is the princess. Ophelia has not told him because she is afraid of losing him if he knows the truth. Not that he would break it off but he would probably want to go tell her father how much he loves her and her father would more than likely lock her up in the tower and throw away the key. Anyways he would find a way to stop Ophelia from seeing Larkin no matter how much he hurt his daughter. The royal family has a reputation to follow and live by, of course. One night when she is out with Larkin at a pub she has to go to the outhouse but before she reaches the outhouse she murdered.
Ophelia is given a choice to either move on or become a grim reaper. She chooses to be a grim reaper. She then becomes Leila, the reaper of souls. Leila has a lot of rules that she must go by as a reaper but she doesn't like following rules no better now than she did when she was Princess Ophelia and alive. She has a lot to learn as a reaper but she has a wonderful group of Reapers to teach her all the ropes of being a reaper. When Leila gets her first reap she finds out that it is not exactly what she thought it would be. Actually she never really gave any thought to what being a reaper meant. The only thing she was thinking about at the time was finding out who killed her. Leila decides that she doesn't want to be a reaper any longer. Her understanding of being a reaper means that she is killing people and she wants no part of that.
Leila meets other reapers that teach her a lot about being a reaper and the rules that she must follow. They also become her friend and help her when she needs it or gets herself into a bind. Leila likes all of her new friends especially Wynter whom she comes to care about a lot and who also cares about her. Wynter and Leila have a special kind of relationship. Does Leila find out who killed her? Will she ever learn to accept the choice she made? Will Wynter and Leila fall in love? If they do will they ever tell each other how they feel? To find out the answers among other things you will just have to read Dead Girl Walking of course.
Dead Girl Walking is not the first book by Ruth Silver that I have read and I hope that it won't be the last. Every book by Ruth Silver that I have read I loved so when I saw that she had written another book I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I didn't even have to read the summary to know that it would be a great book. If you have not Dead Girl Walking then my opinion is that you should read it asap along with her other books as well like the Aberrant Series and Orenda they are just as amazing as Dead Girl Walking.
About the Author-
Ruth Silver is the best-selling author of ABERRANT, a young adult dystopian adventure series published by Patchwork Press and Lazy Day Publishing, in 2013. Author, YA Blogger, and Book Manager with Booktrope Publishing, Ruth keeps busy with writing, updating her book blogs Write Away Bliss and YA Book Deals, and promoting authors.
With a passion for reading, photography, and traveling Ruth has plenty of stories and experiences to share. She loves dystopian, paranormal, and fantasy young adult novels most of all. Ruth has been actively writing since she was a teenager. She currently resides in Plainfield, Illinois.
Giveaway-
1 signed paperback of Dead Girl Walking (US only)
5 eBooks of Dead Girl Walking (Intl)
1 eBook of Jacob, King of Portalia (intl)
1 eBook of Spirit Warriors: The Scarring (Intl)
1 eBook of Fractured Dream (intl)
1 eBook of Orenda (Intl)
1 eBook of Eyes of the Enemy (Intl)
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